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lages will follow the example of those of Campsall and its vicinity. 

 Extend this plan to England, Europe, and the world, and then indeed 

 we might, at no distant period, hope to see that glorious consumma- 

 tion spoken of in Holy Writ, " Knowledge shall cover the earth, 

 even as the wafers cover the sea." 



We shall take an early opportunity of giving a further account of 

 the proceedings of this institution, and in the interim wish it the suc- 

 cess it so well merits. 



It may be observed, in conclusion, that custom appears to have re- 

 conciled all parties to the Mechanics' Institutions for the benefit of 

 the inhabitants of towns. That the same feeling may ere long occu- 

 py our minds with regard to societies for the instruction of the now 

 benighted dwellers in villages and the country generally, is our sin- 

 cere wish.* 



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The Sjyas of Germany. By A. B. Granville, JM.D., F.R.S. 2 vols. 

 8vo., pp. Ixii., 946 ; with Tables and thirty-eight Plates. Lon- 

 don : Colburn. 1837- 



Ever since the time when disease began to make encroachments 

 on the office of old age, in continuing the natural vicissitudes of hu- 

 man existence, the prolific ingenuity of man has never ceased to be 

 exercised in discovering and devising means for the conservation or 

 recovery of health with its universally desired accompaniments — 

 happiness and longevity. Among the multitude of resources usual- 

 ly employed for attaining these highest of enjoyments, not the least 

 efficacious has long been the use of mineral waters under their 

 saline, chalybeate, and gasiferous kinds, and at all their practicable 

 diversities of application and temperature. 



Mineral springs are abundantly distributed over the various re- 

 gions of the globe, and more than two thousand of them are fre- 

 quented by invalids and convalescents in quest of benefit from their 

 medicinal virtues. Di-. Granville's volumes are occupied with ob- 

 servations on thirty-six of the German watering-places; and his 

 account of these is both entertaining and instructive. 



Having explained the general objects of his work in a concise 

 preface, the Doctor gives a comprehensive introduction, which con- 



* The readers of The Analyst are indebted solely to Neville Wood, Esq., 

 for this communication Ed. 



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